Amanda Alund's blog

As I end my journey of my first year of college, I have to ask myself, why does every girl feel the need to be skinny??  I myself am not fat, but I do have a few extra pounds.  I live in a dormitory with 30 girls on my floor, and every single one of them, every day, complains "I'm too Fat", "I need to go to the gym."  Many of these girls are not fat by any standards.  A few of them are even very skinny.  I don't understand why everyone has to buy into the media perspective of everyone being a size 0 with like 2% body fat.  I was put into gymnastics as a child, and my coaches made me anorexic because I would work out all hours of the day, and being the picky eater I am, would not eat the foods that I should have been eating.  There are always reports in the media of how the media should stop giving girls a false sense of self, but yet no one has done anything.  Even boys now feel the need to be skinny.  I just don't understand what americas obsession with being skinny is.  Can't we all just be healthy weights and be okay with it?